Articles by: Ragnar Egilsson
WHERE TO FIND YOUR MEAT AND VEG
For those who don’t feel like trolling the local restaurants but are similarly underwhelmed by the selection at their local…
Professionals, At The Top Of Their Game
While their fifteen years of experience explain the on-stage swagger, it’s remarkable to witness the influence GusGus have in the…
THE BAGUETTE SLINGER
Now, I am not a food snob. Food snobs probably make jokes like “the meal was less degustation than a…
A CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED PLACE
Durum is a lunch place. It’s more than a hole-in-a-wall, but not by much. It’s clean and white, with some…
THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED CRACKERS
The owners of Kex would have me know that they consider it a tavern, not a gastro-pub. I would have…
PATRIOT GRUB!
When you find a bar/restaurant named Íslenski barinn (The Icelandic Bar) in the capital of Iceland there are probably two…
SORRY, NO MONK MEAT
The idea of a Viking themed bar triggers the same knee-jerk reaction that natives get when they’re confronted with the…
Full Metal Racket!
by Bogi Bjarnason, Bob Cluness and Ragnar Egilsson
The annual sweaty moshfest that is the Eistnaflug metal festival descended upon the tiny Eastfjords village of Neskaupstaður like a…
BLAH REYKJAVÍK
Thai Reykjavík is an extension from Suðurnes-fave Thai Keflavík. They recently opened in the old location of Kínahúsið, a friendly…
SIGHING OF THE LAMBS
1919 Restaurant is on the first floor of the Radison Blu 1919 Hotel (luckily that wasn’t the first mouthful of…
ROUND 2: NOODLEGEDDON!
Last time we reviewed Núðluskálin was a year ago, and in comparison with their Skólavörðustígur neighbours, Noodle Station. Núðluskálin was…
THE BURGERS THAT ATE LAUGAVEGUR
The waitress was in a strange mood. She freely admitted that her humour was a little hit-and-miss, which it was…
FM Belfast: Don´t Want To Sleep
The album lead-in is a raging ‘90s keyboard loop with promises of a record best experienced while wearing overalls and…
Arabian Horse
The year 2010 was one of transition, with too many bands shuffling around indecisively. This year seems it will be…
A FOREIGNER’S GUIDE TO THE CONFUSING WORLD OF ICELANDIC CELEBRITIES
While America is awash in third generation entitlematon celebrity and other fruit of Satan’s loins and the UK drags fame-starved…
Remembering Biogen
Sigurbjörn Þorgrímsson was an electronic musician best known under the name of Biogen. To many he was simply known as…
Why North Africa Is Our New Culinary Friend
I know we Icelanders tend to think of Muslims as the people who only came here to steal our Westman…
Ben Frost
On By The Throat, artwork and music unfolds like a Scandinavian thriller. On Ben Frost’s new album, artwork and music…
GusGus
The core members of GusGus have ruled the Icelandic club scene for an obscenely long time (15 years?). And the…
NASA – Saturday
by Andrew Jackson, Angela Rawlings, Ragnar Egilsson and Rex Beckett
I have no idea why I missed Jónas Sigurðsson & Malbikið Svífur’s set. OK. I know. I overslept. A lot….
Batteríið – Friday
With lines stretching into a soppy horizon, would-be Reykjavík Art Museum patrons balked and stumbled to join the packed crowd…
Jacobsen – Thursday
Another example of the proliferation of new electronic crews in Iceland, we saw local crew I [heart] RVK teaming up…
Jacobsen – Wednesday
The electronic music scene in Iceland has probably never been stronger. It seems every night a new band, a new…
THE SWEET STUFF
Iceland’s relationship with sweets has long been a strange one. For the most part it seems we tend to think…
THEY CAME, THEY SAW, THEY FROZE THEIR ASSES OFF
A brief look at the bands that have been here THE FIRST The Kinks were here in ´65 and played…